Neighborhood. Your new day starts right now. This is new day with kate bolduan, Michaela Pereira and john berman. We begin with breaking news this morning. A possible breakthrough in the search for flight 370. Could be a big one. Pilots from australia and china reporting debris sightings in the south indian ocean. Kate bolduan is tracking it all from perth, australia. Kate. Good morning, everyone. A News Conference wrapped up just moments ago. The australian prime minister, tony abbott, had told them two object, one round, one rectangular had been spotted by pilots in the southern indian ocean and they could have those objects in their possession within hours. Thats the near end of that timeline. Thats big news. Also a chinese search plane spotted two large white suspicious objects. We are also learning new details about what might have happened in the cockpit. New radar shows the plane descended to 12,000 feet after making that infamous sharp lefthand turn. Two objects have been locat
Where the electronic pulses have been heard. The search zone is the smallest its ever been as the crews race around the clock hoping to hear more pings and find actual wreckage. Our team of experts standing by in the situation room to help us understand what it means and kcorrespondents have new information about the search and the investigation. Lets go first to our aviation correspondent, rene marsh for the very latest. Rene . Wolf, another day, another potential ping in the same area as the others, but this time it was detected with a totally different piece of equipment the search for flight 370s black boxes intensifies and the ping count may have gone up again. An australian orion aircraft flying over ocean shield dropping uoys in the water below and at least one got a hit. A possible fifth ping detected where ocean shield already picked up four. That could be a confidence builder. The fact that its picked up by a sonabuoy which is probably less well equipped to detect that signal
For flight 370 is ramping up this morning as the clock ticks down on that remaining battery life on the planes black box recorders. It is estimated they will only ping for about 30 days, and time is running out. As christine said, about six days left. Ten aircraft, ten ships will be scouring the search zone in the indian ocean today west of australia, looking for any sign of flight 370. Australian officials had described four orange objects spotted sunday as a promising lead, but theyve just confirmed to cnn they are not related to the plane. Theyre just pieces of fishing equipment. This morning an australian vessel, the ocean shield will make its way to the search area, carrying a hightech u. S. Navy pinger detector that can scan under water for the black boxes. Australias Prime Minister, tony abbott, says if the flight 370 mystery is solvable, they will solve it. He spoke exclusively with cnns Atika Shubert. Atika joins us live from perth, australia. Atika, whats the latest . Reporte
Right now, search planes are getting ready to take off again on one of their last missions to look for debris from flight 370. The underwater hunt for the missing plane is in a new critical phase with the launch of an unmanned mini submarine that scans the ocean floor. Were also learning about a potential clue. A u. S. Official revealing to cnn that a malaysian cell phone tower detected the copilots phone was on around the time the jet vanished. Our correspondents and analysts are following every new development there in the region. Theyre in the situation room covering this story as only cnn can. Lets go to our aviation correspondent, rene marsh, first, for the very latest. Rene . Well, wolf, i can tell you a significant strategy in the search here, shift in the search. Crews have moved from listening under water to looking under water and this new phase could be a long haul. Taking weeks, even months. A strategy shift in the search for flight 370s black boxes. Its time to go under wa
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